Six people were arrested for allegedly beating the Dalit woman and her family in Gujarat.

Banaskantha, Gujarat:

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Pregnant Dalit woman, family beaten up in Gujarat's Banaskantha district

They had refused to dispose a cow carcass, attacked by around 20 people

6 arrested, incident in series of violent crimes against Dalits

A 25-year-old pregnant Dalit woman and her family were beaten up in Gujarat on Friday allegedly after they refused to dispose of a cow carcass, police has said.

According to the family, a group of men from the upper caste Thakore community came to her house in the Mota Karga village about 180 km from Ahmedabad demanding that they pick up the carcass of a dead cow.

The family had left the work long ago and a boycott called by Dalit groups after the public flogging of four men from the community in the state two months ago had only hardened their resolve.

But upset at their defiance, the men left only to return with a larger group of about 20.

"Even before we could realise what was happening, they started abusing us and then started attacking us with wooden sticks," Sangita Ranavasiya told NDTV at a government hospital in neighbouring Palanpur.